I know, I know, I'm awful! I've been seriously slacking in the Quogan department because I've been hit by all this Big Time Rush inspiration! Please don't hate me! Here's the next chapter. It's a little angsty, I guess, but only briefly, I promise!
Enjoy!
The first time Quinn and Logan fight (like really fight) is shortly after they return to PCA for their senior year. It's loud, full of screaming and cursing and the type of angry tension that makes them both sick to their stomachs. The thing that most people mistakenly assume about Quinn and Logan is that, before they started dating, they were always fighting. But that's not the truth. It was more like they simply didn't interact. And yes, on the few occasions they did, Quinn tended to share their other friend's annoyance at the rich boy, but it was never a fight. Not like this.
Not with both of their faces bright red (which looks so unusual on Logan's normally perfectly tan complexion) and nasty words they don't really mean flying back and forth like arrows or bullets. They both know each other's weakness, better than anyone else. Both know exactly where to aim the bullets to hit the chink in the other person's armor. It makes the fight all the more tense and terrifying.
They're fighting over Mark Delfiggalo, of all people.
After unsuccessfully attempting to date both Brooke Margolin and Stacey Dilson, the rather bland boy had returned to Pacific Coast Academy with the hopes of rekindling his old flame with Quinn, either unaware or uncaring of the fact that she was perfectly happy (so much happier than she'd ever been with Mark) with Logan. Quinn had in no way returned, encouraged, or even acknowledge Mark's rather lack luster advances, but that didn't stop Logan from finding out about it.
And it didn't stop him from being furious.
Logan is the jealous type. Quinn knows this and, usually, she finds it sweet. But when he'd walked into her room, slamming the door behind him (a clear sign for Zoey and Lola to leave) and then accused her of cheating on him with her ex, well…she'd found that slightly (way, way) less than adorable. And then their tempers had flared and their pride had refused to let either one back down, which brought them to the current screaming match that was taking place in room 101.
"For the last time!" Quinn screams, jabbing her finger at Logan's chest, her breathing heavy because of her anger, "I have been nothing but faithful to you since that day on the bench!"
"Then why is Mark hanging all over you?" There's a venom behind Logan's words that's not usually there (he can be mean, no one doubts that, but he's usually never cruel).
"He wasn't!" Quinn's got tears of frustration welling up in her eyes. "He was attempting to rekindle our romance, but I refused! Because I have you!"
Logan scoffs and Quinn bristles because she knows that means he doesn't believe her. Or well, the rational part of her mind tries to tell her, that he's just scared and insecure (because, surprisingly, or maybe it's not surprising, Quinn can never decide which, Logan really isn't as confident as he appears. Not when it comes to things that aren't superficial-like love). It's not that he doesn't believe her, it's just that he's trying to protect himself on the slim, slim chance that she is lying to him. But she's so angry that she honestly doesn't, in this moment, give a damn.
"God Logan! Why do you have to be so stupid?"
As soon as the words slip out of her mouth she regrets them, wishing they were tangible things she could snatch out and grab, dragging them back into her where Logan could never, ever find them. His face goes blank, his eyes hard but there is no other emotion on his face, not even anger. "Fine." He whispers, his tone the only indication to how truly angry he is at her words. And then, he's gone, leaving the room with the same resounding bang of a door slam that he entered with.
Quinn stares at the door, blinking back more tears (but now she's angry and sad, heartbreakingly so), until her eyes are just so full that they have no other option but to run down her face and drip off her chin, escaping into the carpet and sometimes on her shirt. She knows what a mistake she's made. She of all people, knows how sensitive Logan is about his intelligence. Knows how badly he secretly wants to prove that he is in fact, very intelligent, although not necessarily in the conventional sense. And she knows that her opinion of his intelligence is the one he values the most. Because she was the first person who ever told him she honestly believed he was intelligent, even if it wasn't the way other people expected him to be.
The problem was, well, that she had meant what she'd said (she didn't think he was stupid all around, but she really had thought he was being stupid about the whole situation). She's a girl of science so she tries not let her emotions get in the way of her thinking (and it usually works), so it can be hard for her to understand how people can be so irrational. But even if she really had thought it, and even if she hadn't meant it the way Logan obviously had assumed she had, she should never have said it. It was a low blow and they both know it.
It doesn't matter that Logan had initially been in the wrong in their argument. The mistake is all on Quinn now and she's going to have to be the one to apologize and she knows it.
Zoey and Lola return nearly an hour later to find Quinn still crying, but she's also got her hair in braids for what seems to be the first time in forever and they know that means that she's thinking, desperately, about a problem that needs to be fixed. When they see her broken heart reflected in her eyes, they know immediately that this problem is something they can help her fix, however, even if it's just with suggestions.
Two hours and some intense searching through the girls' closet later, Quinn is feeling a little bit better and Zoey and Lola are both confident that everything will work out fine in the end.
Quinn feels ridiculous, like honestly ridiculous. And if she was doing this for anyone else in the world besides Logan (Logan, who is self absorbed but so sweet and has her heart so completely that the past day of not speaking to him has been sheer torture), well she wouldn't be doing it if it was anyone else besides him. But seeing as it is Logan and seeing has she did mess up, big time (even if he messed up too), she will do it.
She still can't believe she fits into the cheerleading uniform Logan had made Lola and Zoey wear two years ago.
She gets up on the table in the middle of the quad and everyone turns to stare at her. She blushes under some of the gazes, most of them male (they'd all grown since sophomore year, so the uniform fits, but it doesn't necessarily fit appropriately). She sees Logan look up from his lunch when an opened mouthed Chase and Michael both nudge him. He drops the half a burger he had been holding in surprise and she can see the look on his face as the many boys around them ogle her.
He looks like he wants to punch them, which Quinn takes as a good sign. Although she really hopes he won't because then he'd be taken to Dean Rivers and would miss this utterly embarrassing thing she is about to do. She starts of with the basic cheer, the words altered to be about how she's sorry and how much she loves Logan (courtesy of Chase and he's fantastic writing skills). She's suddenly thankful for her years as a pageant girl because they've turned her into a pretty decent cheerleader.
When she finally finishes, she looks up at Logan who is standing up and has moved closer to her. There's still no emotion on his face though and Quinn begins to worry. Until he stretches out his arms (his lips stretch out too, into a happy smile) and Quinn quite literally launches herself at him. He kisses her until they both can't breath and when they break apart Quinn immediately apologizes.
"I'm so sorry about what I said. I was mad and I never should have spoken out like that just because I was angry. You know I don't think you're stupid! You're brilliant and wonderful and I-"
He kisses her lightly to cut her off, grinning at the adorable face she makes when he pulls away. "I'm sorry too." He tells her and her whole face lights up (because even though she knows she'd done something wrong, he had some apologizing of his own to do and she's incredibly happy that he's realized this too). "I was being insecure and a jerk and I was being stupid. About that at least. And I know that's really all you meant by it."
She grins, wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing herself as close as she possibly can to him. It still amazes her, still fills her with this incredibly warm, floaty feeling when she sees just how well Logan really does know her. How well he understands her thoughts and actions. Because this thing they share feels more and more permanent everyday and it's nice to know that even when things get bad, they'll always eventually come around and understand one another.
That even when things get bad, in the end they'll be good. Very, very good.
Logan does get sent to Dean River's office a week later. Quinn shakes her head at him, but can't help smiling as he tells her that Firewire had it coming.
(this is the kind of jealousy she finds endearing, even if she doesn't think he really should have given Firewire a black eye)
After all, he tells her, only that nerd would be dumb enough to flaunt the fact that Cheerleader!Quinn was his new cell phone background.
Well there's chapter nine. I'm pretty sure this is the only chapter that will even come close to being anything kind of sad.
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